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By making alliances with the old social classes and adopting the colonial bureaucratic structure, the new nations essentially vitiated the Third World agenda.

The two major companies, U.S.­ based Standard oil and British-based Mexican Eagle, were chary about the nationalist noises from Mexico City.

they had to be deposed by an alternative ruler or else a constitutional movement from below that traduced the posture of the Pentagon's modernization attempts.

Rather than modernization, we have "primitive accumulation" for a small circle of the ruler's family members.

Boumedienne had a vision of a "solicitous" state that tended to the needs of a respectful and quiescent population.